In Deuteronomy 6.6-9, God through Moses, said the following words. “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
Now, imagine during our lives here on earth that we would follow God’s plan for the family in these verses and we took our responsibilities to God seriously, and we taught our children according to the things written in this passage. I would expect that our homes might look very differently from the homes that are in our county! However, is that not what God expects us to do in our homes?
Are we not called to be different from those in the world? Paul wrote in Romans 12.2, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” We are not to be like the world (conformed to it). But we are to be different from the world. Jesus said, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”
Therefore, we see that God required His people in the Old Testament, as well as those in the New Testament, to be different from those of the world. Since we are living under the New Testament of Jesus Christ today we understand that we are to be very different from the people of the world. In fact, our priority of work ought to be to bring the worldly people out of the world and into the Lord’s church!
Think about it!
Kevin Williams
